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such smaller details as might be overlooked. Among the monu- 

 ments, the nameless, brassless tombs of the Turbervilles in the 

 south aisle, whose arms still brighten the windows above, whose 

 bones lie in the vault below. Near them are two very good ogee 

 foliated arches, covering nameless altar tombs ; of one, which 

 appears to have been cut away for a doorway, this legend has 

 been told me. Some former Lord of the Manor, I suppose a 

 Turberville, quarrelled with the then parson, and vowed he would 

 never enter the old church doors. Happily, as in many such 

 foolish quan-els, time removed the discord, but the squire cut a 

 new door into the church, to the keeping of his word and the 

 disfigurement of the aisle. Notice the Skenie monument in the 

 chancel bearing the arms of Castile and Aragon ; the Skernes 

 were an old Spanish family, still represented in this country by 

 the Skrines of Warleigh and Claverton, near Bath. Read the 

 quaint old rhyme and contrast it with the fulsome praise and 

 pedantic Latin of the Loupe brass by the north door, if you can 

 translate it, for I think it defies translation, and then glance at 

 that briefest of all epitaphs in the vestry, dear for old associations 

 to Balliol men, " Verbum non amplius Fisher." Glance down at 

 the wood work, new and old, the old seat ends dated 1547 

 opposite the porch door, and the old Jacobean panels in the 

 vestry ; the beautiful new work is by Harry Hems, copied from 

 some of the best designs in West Country churches. Even the 

 tiling is worth your notice ; one large tile used in the porch and 

 chancel, bearing the three Plantagenet leopards, is copied from 

 old tiles found in Bindon Abbey ; smaller tiles with shields of two 

 patterns were copied from old tiles found in this church, and I 

 think you will admire the simplicity and character of our 

 " native" pattern. 



And last, let the windows, filled with beautiful modern glass 

 by Hardman, the magnificent gift of Mrs. Lloyd Egginton, who 

 had restored chancel and south aisle at her own cost, preach to 

 you the Life of Christ and man's redemption ; or if in this excite- 

 ment of a gathering of friends there is little time or calm for such 



